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Vivendi SA is engaged in the content and media businesses. The Company operates through three subsidiaries: Canal+ Group, Universal Music Group and Vivendi Village. Canal+ Group is an audiovisual group engaged in publishing and distribution of premium and thematic pay-television channels as well as free-to-air channels in... (more)

PARIS, July 30 - European media group Vivendi
has sold its remaining 4 percent stake in Telefonica
Brasil for $877 million, resolving an antitrust
problem it had as the owner of indirect stakes in two Brazilian
mobile operators.

PARIS/MADRID, July 29 - European media group
Vivendi has become a major shareholder in Spain's
Telefonica after agreeing to swap shares in the telecom
operator's Brazilian unit for those of the parent company.

* Announces to have entered into agreement with Telefonica
to exchange 58.4 million of its Telefonica Brasil
preferred shares (representing 3.5 percent of share
capital) for 46.0 million ordinary shares of Telefonica,
representing 0.95 percent of the Spanish telecoms operator's
share capital
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(Gdynia Newsroom)

WARSAW, July 6 - U.S. media group Scripps Networks
Interactive has offered to pay a total of 3.2 billion
zlotys ($843.64 million) to buy the shares in Polish broadcaster
TVN it does not already own to take full control over
the company and delist it.

WARSAW, July 6 - U.S. media group Scripps Networks
Interactive said on Monday it intended to make a tender
offer for shares of Polish broadcaster TVN, offering 20
zlotys ($5.27) per share, to gain full control over the firm.

PARIS - French media group Vivendi pushed out Rodolphe Belmer as chief of its Canal Plus unit on Friday amid disappointment over what one source said was a failure to rejuvenate the pay-TV channel and halt a drop in sales and profits.

PARIS, July 3 - French media group Vivendi
pushed out Rodolphe Belmer as chief of its Canal Plus
unit on Friday amid disappointment over what one source said was
a failure to rejuvenate the pay-TV channel and halt a drop in
sales and profits.